![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written and compiled by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell, Genius, Illustrated gathers original comics pages, storyboards, animation model sheets, advertising art, correspondence, and sketchbook pages, and combines them with a detailed and touching biography to form the only truly definitive work on one of the most talented and quixotic men in comics history.The first volume of this series - the Harvey Award-winning Genius, Isolated - covers Alex Toth's career from his debut in 1945 to the early 1960s, a span that saw his light-speed progression from talented newcomer to masterful innovator, his conscription during the Korean War and rollicking Jon Fury comics while serving in Japan, his triumph-slash-debacle on Dell Comics' Zorro, and the work he did for DC, where he excelled at war comics, romance, horror, crime, westerns, and pissing people off. ![]() Now available from IDW Publishing and The Library of American Comics is Genius, Illustrated - the middle entry in a three volume project that examines the life and career of the undeniably great and simultaneously vastly unappreciated artist Alex Toth. Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell continue their comprehensive review of the life and art of Alex Toth in Genius, Illustrated. ![]()
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